Custom Python Interpreters

The modules described in this chapter allow writing interfaces similar to Python’s interactive interpreter. If you want a Python interpreter that supports some special feature in addition to the Python language, you should look at the code module. (The codeop module is lower-level, used to support compiling a possibly incomplete chunk of Python code.)

The full list of modules described in this chapter is:

• code — Interpreter base classes
  • InteractiveInterpreter
  • InteractiveConsole
  • interact()
  • compile_command()
  • Interactive Interpreter Objects
    • InteractiveInterpreter.runsource()
    • InteractiveInterpreter.runcode()
    • InteractiveInterpreter.showsyntaxerror()
    • InteractiveInterpreter.showtraceback()
    • InteractiveInterpreter.write()
  • Interactive Console Objects
    • InteractiveConsole.interact()
    • InteractiveConsole.push()
    • InteractiveConsole.resetbuffer()
    • InteractiveConsole.raw_input()
• codeop — Compile Python code
  • compile_command()
  • Compile
  • CommandCompiler